Thakur Ramapati Singh

Thakur Ramapati Singh
Thakur Ramapati Singh
	Motihari Lok Sabha constituency
Personal details
Born	1912; Harnathpur, Bihar
Died	12 October 1999; Motihari, chandmari
Political party	Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Ratneshwari Devi ( dead - 2019, motihari, chandmari)
Residence(s)	Motihari, India

Thakur Ramapati Singh (1912 – 12 October 1999) (also known as Thakur Ramapati Sinha), was a freedom fighter, politician, MLA and Minister of Bihar, Member of Indian Parliament and a prominent social personality from Motihari, Bihar in India.

Family

Thakur Ramapati Singh was the eldest son of Shri Ram Surat Singh the head of one of the wealthiest landlord family of the village of Harnathpur located in present day "Pakridayal Block" of East Champaran district of the State of Bihar in India. His family had thousands of acres of land in Motihari, Muzaffarpur, Bettiah, and in Delhi,and Haryana as well.

Education

His school education was primarily at the district headquarters in Motihari. After school, he joined Patna Science College. The country was witnessing a raging

Mahatma Gandhi during this period and Thakur Ramapati Singh was soon in the midst of this movement leading the Youth Congress in Patna. He came in contact with the stalwarts of independence movement and eminent nationalists Rajendra Babu, Anugraha Babu and Shri Krishna Sinha.^[1]

Post-Independence career

Singh was repeatedly imprisoned by the British government in India. After independence, he completed his law degree, worked briefly in a local law practice and then established his own.^[citation needed]

Politics

Affected by the state of local governance, Singh returned to politics by being elected as chairman of the municipal corporation of Motihari.^{[citation needed]}

Bihar Legislative Assembly

He was then elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1960s and then for a second term in 1972.

Chief Minister of Bihar, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha.^{[citation needed}

]

Dissidence during State of Emergency

In the 1970s during the “days of emergency”, Singh joined the struggle led by Jayaprakash Narayan and worked closely with his close colleague and Janata Party veteran Satyendra Narain Sinha also a prominent political leader of this movement^[3] he was repeatedly imprisoned as a political prisoner during the emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.^{[citation needed]}

Member of Parliament

In the elections that followed the emergency, Singh was a candidate of the newly-formed Janata Party and contested and won from his home

constituency of Motihari. He was a Member of Parliament of the 6th Lok Sabha of India^[4]

from the Motihari constituency.

Retirement from politics

After his stint in the Indian Parliament, he returned to his law practice. He spent the rest of his years in his home town of Motihari dedicating his efforts to socialism while out of public office.^[citation needed]

He was in his later years, elected Chairman of the

Bar Association of Motihari.^{[citation needed}

]

Death

Thakur Ramapati Singh died on 12 October 1999 in his home in Chandmari, Motihari, and was cremated in the village of his ancestors.^[citation needed]

References

^ "Freedom Fighters". Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
^ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1972 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR" (PDF).
^ Democracy & Dissent by Lallan Tiwary, 1987, Mittal Publications
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[1] "Freedom Fighters". Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2010.

[2] "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1972 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR" (PDF).

[3] Democracy & Dissent by Lallan Tiwary, 1987, Mittal Publications

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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